💥Collision Emoji
Generally, 💥 means something intense or explosive – like a really cool event or a surprising reaction. It’s often used to add emphasis to what you’re saying in a text.
The 💥 emoji basically means a collision, an explosion, or a big boom.
- Unicode
- U+1F4A5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :boom:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💥 Collision emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as bomb emoji.
Collision emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4A5. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Collision emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :boom:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4A5.
How to type the 💥 Collision emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Collision emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Collision emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around collision for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💥, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 💥 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 💥 means in other countries
Reads as impact, explosion or a strong reaction everywhere — a punchy visual with no real cultural split.
Marks a big impact, an argument, or comic exaggeration of a small event gone wrong.
Used for a hard hit, big play, or dramatic moment in a match or game.
Before you send it: Safe anywhere you want visual punch, from an angry vent to a celebratory highlight.
What 💥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the collision lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 💥 Collision emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4A5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💥 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E705, KDDI au E5B0.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Collision was approved as U+1F4A5 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💥 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.